{"id":22491,"date":"2024-09-05T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22491"},"modified":"2024-09-05T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:08:38","slug":"west-indies-clinch-third-consecutive-t20-series-victory-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/west-indies-clinch-third-consecutive-t20-series-victory-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies Clinch Third Consecutive T20 Series Victory Against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In an impressive display of cricket, the West Indies secured their third consecutive T20 International series win against South Africa on Sunday night at the Brain Lara Cricket Academy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decisive performance came from Shamar Joseph and Romario Shepherd, who played pivotal roles in the series-clinching match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a 2-0 lead in the three-match series, the West Indies team set a challenging target of 180 runs for the visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shai Hope contributed 41 runs, Rovman Powell added 35, and Sherfane Rutherford scored 29, helping the West Indies post a total of 179 for 6 in their 20 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional contributions came from Alick Athanaze with 28 runs and Nicholas Pooran with 19 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa, chasing a daunting total, was making progress until key wickets shifted the momentum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reeza Hendricks (44), Tristan Stubbs (28), and Ryan Rickelton (20) led the South African charge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the game turned when the Windies dismissed Donovan Ferreira in the 15th over and Rassie van der Dussen in the 16th over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West Indies\u2019 victory was spearheaded by the bowling prowess of Shamar Joseph and Romario Shepherd. Shepherd, who took 3 wickets for 15 runs in 4 overs, was named Player of the Match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph also delivered a standout performance, achieving his best T20 figures of 3 for 31. The West Indies clinched the match with a commanding 30-run victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa will have a chance to salvage pride in the final match of the series on August 27 at the same venue, but the West Indies have already secured the series win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an impressive display of cricket, the West Indies secured their third consecutive T20 International series win against South Africa on Sunday night at the Brain Lara Cricket Academy. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22492,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22491\/revisions\/22492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}